Following months of meetings and debate — including another impassioned hour Tuesday morning — Christian County Fiscal Court passed its long-awaited solar energy systems ordinance by a vote of 5-0, setting a 2,000-foot variance from the outer edge of any ground-level solar panel to all of the following in the county:
— boundary lines of all adjacent properties
— residences, buildings and structures existing at the time of construction
— schools
— churches
— hospitals
— nursing facilities
— right-of-ways for dedicated and maintained road and railways
— cemeteries
Magistrates Mark Wells and Terry Bowman abstained from the vote, while Mark Cansler served as judge-executive pro tem in Steve Tribble’s health-related absence.
Centered around the ongoing kerfuffle between Mitsubishi power venture Oriden and the Dogwood community of north Christian County, plans were…